Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Animal abuse is still widespread and we have so much work ahead.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?